davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2024

[davidd]

This is a great set.  And you'd never guess it was so small; you got a lot of different angles out of it.

A learned-through-trial-and-error trick to dolly-scale set construction is to make the background walls taller than "scale" height. I started with 16-inch walls, but found that camera angles were limited. I progressed to 18-inch walls, but still found the angle options limited. Now, for 12-inch figures, I usually build 20-inch walls, which mostly works for most of what I try to do, and which is the standard width of a sheet of foam core poster board. Sometimes, even then, I need to add a temporary "ceiling" for some shots so the top edge of the walls doesn't show.

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A DOLL A DAY 2024: Catching Up

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23 March - Misty Beach Day

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24 March - Mister Svengoolie in the Studio

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25 March - Another Misty Beach Day

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26 March - Action Figure Action

Wanton violence, firearms, objectification of chicks... you know, the classic action movie stuff!

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27 March - Yet Another Misty Beach Day

According to weather records, the winter of 2023-2024 has been the most consistently overcast, one of the coolest, and one of the wettest winter seasons on record for the Daytona-Ormond Beach area in the past 80 years.

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28 March - Mistress of the Dark